Professor Zhang Zhongxiang Made Special Report in the Danish Embassy in China at the Invitation of FCCC

　　On Sept. 25th, 2015, after the talk between President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama in Washington, China and the US once again issued a joint statement on climate change. The statement pointed out that China plans to launch nationwide carbon emissions trading system in 2017, which will cover iron and steel, electricity, chemicals and other key industries. On the same day, New York Times made an interview with Prof. Zhang Zhongxiang, the Distinguished University Professor of CoME, Tianjin University. In this context, Foreign Correspondents Club of China(FCCC)specially arranged a public lecture for Professor Zhang Zhongxiang on China's carbon emissions trading at Danish Embassy in China in Beijing.

　　More than 40 news reporters and diplomats from the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland embassies took part in this special public lecture, including media like NBC, National Public Radio (NPR), Associated Press (AP), the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), British Sky News (Sky News), the British "Financial Times", the British "Economist "(The Economist), the German Association of Broadcasters, Das Erste Deutsche Fernschen (ARD), Germany" Le Monde "(DIE WELT), the German" Berliner Zeitung ", the French" cross newspaper "(la Croix), the Italian Radio and Television company (Rai), Spain Effie News Agency (EFE), the Netherlands' Volkskrant "(de Volkskrant), the Dutch NOS television channel, Dutch RTL television channel, Canadian" Globe and Mail ", the Danish broadcasting Corporation (DR), Austria" standard message ", Singapore channel NewsAsia, CCTV , China Radio International and other international media.

　　Carbon emissions’ trading is the sustained attention and research field of Professor Zhang Zhongxiang. Early in the 1990s, at the invitation of UNCTAD, co-authored with the president of United States Environmental and Resource Economics Society, Professor Tom Tietenberg and other four world-class scholars from Europe, Professor Zhang Zhongxiang wrote the International Rules for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading, which was published by the United Nations in 1999, is the first definitive work as a comprehensive and systematic discussion on the design and implementation of international trading system for greenhouse gas emissions.

　　In this special report, Professor Zhang Zhongxiang takes advantage of the long-term deeper understanding of accumulation of research on these issues, the advanced experience of foreign countries and the actual situation in China combined with a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the design, operation and compliance status of the seven carbon emissions trading pilots in China, and the lessons learned, the transitional path to the carbon emissions trading system nationwide, the national carbon emissions trading system under the national and provincial levels, the competent authorities in the quota allocation, management, verification and paid to date and on carbon emissions trading on the supervision and management of duties, how to manage the quota price volatility and other key issues, and answered "tricky" questions asked by various reporters.

　　Because the research areas of Professor Zhang Zhongxiang spans economics, law, international relations, political science, energy and environmental policies, and his more than twenty-year unique work experience in schools of economics (departments) and law schools of famous European and American universities, research institutions and public diplomacy think tanks, he can observe international trade and environmental agreements and global energy, environment and climate change issues from multi-angles of economics, law and international politics , standing at the position of both developed and developing countries. Reporters also did not want to miss this learning opportunity, and constantly put forward various challenging questions, the originally planned 90 minutes special report finally lasted nearly three hours. But correspondents expressed that they were very enjoyable, and hoped Professor Zhang Zhongxiang may do more special reports.

　　After the report, Professor Zhang Zhongxiang accepted the interviews from NBC, NPR and Singapore Channel NewsAsia and other media, and at the invitation of the Danish Embassy, he also did an in-depth exchange with the Counselor.